Red dust sheriff

Author : JED CALLORAN

On Mars, the law wears a copper star. And one man is all that stands between a frontier town and the company that wants to own its air.

Lowell’s Drift is a dusty mining settlement deep in the red canyons of Coprates Chasma. Fourteen hundred people live under its domes, breathing air from an ageing plant they call the Lung. Abel Rusk has been its only lawman for twelve years. He is a former Ranger with a stubborn streak, a hard rule against firing open loads under the dome, and a past he never talks about.

Then the company train arrives.

Corvane and Hale bring twenty-two armed Regulators, a smiling agent in a long pale coat, and papers claiming that the town’s air plant is in default and its land no longer belongs to the people who built it. Within a day the old keeper of the Lung is found dead in the frost, his helmet seal cut. Within a week the air is running thin, families are signing company contracts that bind their children to their debts, and Rusk has been stripped of his pay by a frightened council.

To save the Drift, Rusk must ride out across the badlands through storm season. He has to find a founder’s lost deed held by a nomad elder the town once drove away, take a stolen-records clerk off a moving train, and face the cold-eyed gunman who has followed him all the way from the worst day of his life.

Red Dust Sheriff is a gritty Mars frontier western of dust storms, company men and old-school heroism. If you love classic westerns, space westerns and grounded science fiction about ordinary people standing up to power, saddle up for a story where the air itself is worth fighting for.

Perfect for readers of space westerns, Mars colony fiction, frontier justice stories and character-driven sci-fi adventure.

📖 322 pages